Novel miniature and broadband millimeter-wave monolithic star mixers

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 793-802

  Kuo, Che Chung ^b   Kuo, Chun Lin ^b   Kuo, Che Jia ^b   Maas, Stephen A ^a,c   Wang, Huei ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c Nonlinear Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Balun; Diode mixer; Double balanced mixer (DBM); Mixer; Monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC); Resistive mixer; Spiral transformer; Star mixer; Transformer

Indexed keywords

CHIP SCALE PACKAGES; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTORS; MICROWAVE CIRCUITS; MIXER CIRCUITS; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; POWER TRANSFORMERS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE;

BALUN; CHIP SIZE; DIODE MIXERS; DOUBLE BALANCED MIXER (DBM); RESISTIVE MIXERS; SPIRAL TRANSFORMERS; STAR MIXERS;

MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES;

EID: 40549138237     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2008.919063     Document Type: Article

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